WASDeTT
International Workshop on Advanced/Academic Software Development Tools and Techniques

The WASDeTT workshop series is motivated by the observation that
tools and tool building play an important role in applied academic
software engineering research. Tools are both the tangible results of research
projects, and -more and more- tools serve the purpose of laboratory and field instruments.

While tool building is popular it is hard to do right. For a tool to actual reach its goal, validating theory or observing reality, a significant engineering and intellectual investment is required.

Given the importance of tool building and the
significant challenges associated with it, our workshop allows interested
researchers to share their tool building experiences and to explore
how tools can be constructed more effectively and efficiently.

The purpose of WASDeTT is to gather researchers working on different tools, providing a forum where
they can talk about common issues relevant to all tool builders, and builders of
academic research prototypes in particular. Like previous WASDeTT instances, this one also prepares for an Experimental Software and Toolkits (EST) special issue of Elsevier's Science in Computer Programming journal, where tool construction results are disseminated.